Lithuanian Journal of Physics article / Lietuvos fizikos žurnalo straipsnis

DIE HARD HOLOGRAPHIC PHENOMENOLOGY OF CUPRATES
Dmitri V. Khveshchenko
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Email: khvesh@physics.unc.edu

Received 3 December 2020; accepted 6 January 2021

We discuss the attempts of fitting a number of the approximate power-law dependences observed in the cuprates into one consistent holographic or holographically inspired hydrodynamic framework. Contrary to the expectations, the goal of reproducing as many as possible of the established behaviours of the thermodynamic and transport coefficients appears to be achievable within the picture of a non-degenerate fermion fluid with quadratic dispersion. While not immediately elucidating the essential physics of the cuprates, this observation suggests a possible reason for which the previous attempts towards that goal have so far remained inconclusive.

Keywords: high-T_c cuprates, applied holography, transport, hydrodynamics

TVARI HOLOGRAFIŠKOJI FENOMENOLOGIJA KUPRATAMS
Dmitri V. Khveshchenko

Šiaurės Karolinos universiteto Fizikos ir astronomijos fakultetas, Čepel Hilas, JAV

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